To amend the CARES Act to extend the waiver of matching funds requirement under the women's business center program.

This bill waives through September 30, 2021, the requirement that any recipient of assistance under the Women's Business Center program obtain matching funds from nonfederal sources. Currently, this waiver expires on June 30, 2021.

The Women's Business Center program authorizes the Small Business Administration to provide assistance to private, nonprofit organizations to carry out projects for the benefit of small businesses that are owned and controlled by women.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2449 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2449

     To amend the CARES Act to extend the waiver of matching funds 
         requirement under the women's business center program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 12, 2021

  Ms. Newman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the CARES Act to extend the waiver of matching funds 
         requirement under the women's business center program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF WAIVER OF MATCHING FUNDS REQUIREMENT UNDER THE 
              WOMEN'S BUSINESS CENTER PROGRAM.

    Section 1105 of the CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 9004) is amended by 
striking ``June 30, 2021'' and inserting ``September 30, 2021''.
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